9-Year-Old Girl Accidentally Shoots, Kills Instructor at Gun Range

More people are killed with cars by people of age to drive them ... Gonna ban them as well


I think like Bob has suggested that in fact we do ban certain people from driving cars. The argument has always been that the ownership of a gun is a right, where the ownership of a car operating on the public roads is a privilege. However, the Supreme Court has made it crystal clear that the government can put restrictions on gun ownership. Like a car, registration, licenses, and mandated safety features are allowed under the Supreme court rulings.

ZVUGKTUBM wrote:What will be interesting are how the lawsuits play out. I hope the owner of the gun range had a good liability policy. A huge judgment (maybe more than one) will be levied here.

This is where we move from one corner of the Twilight Zone to another.
They'll sue the parents, they'll sue the gun range, they'll sue the gun manufacturer and the gun retailer. And the ammo manufacturer. And probably join in local governments wherever this is in Arizona as co-defendants
for not making this unlawful.

I think a strong case can likely be made that this would have never happened had it already been made unlawful. I think that would have deterred these parents and instructor and gun range owner from letting this happen.

The decedent's family will have a workman compensation claim against the gun range if the instructor was an employee. Folks try to get clever and have their employees become independent contractors, but you can bet the lawyers will slice that theory to pieces, and my bet is this gun range did not have workman comp coverage. Any potential workman comp settlement will offset the total claim of any successful liability suit......but Arizona has some powerful contributory negligence statutes and clearly this instructor was off the chart negligent.